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Feature request: combining feeds of similar communities (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Link@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've been on Lemmy for 10 days now and I really enjoy it. The federation is really cool, but compared to Reddit it does have a downside: fragmentation of communities.

I think it would be really cool to be able to combine the feeds of the community Random_topic@example_instance_1 with Random_topic@example_instance_2 etc.

This could work well for reading, but I realize that posting is more difficult. So when posting you should be able to choose on what instance you want to post to the Random_topic 'community group'.

What do you think?

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[–] MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think a voluntary sync between instances/communities is the next step. I think you’re proposing a client-side solution, which would be helpful, but a back-end solution that allows instances (or at least communities) to sync everything will be a better experience, and help prevent one instance from “owning” too much of the traffic.

[–] Link@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

I didn't even think about that, but that also seems like a really cool idea. They are not mutually exclusive, so hopefully we will see both in the future.

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